Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-03
The Railroad Lobby Easily Persuales Him
to Betray His Trust
HE DESERTS oMAhA'S CHARTER.
OiI.Room Work on the Weaknesses
of other Legislators-The Senate
Passes Its Stupendous Joke
on the People.
Putting on the Screws.


the Douglas delegation took the conspirators
and plotters by surprise, but they are at work
as hard as ever. This afternoon, while the
Douglas delegation were holding confer
ence with closed doors over the proposed
amendments, Nandervoort was overheard to
say that he was bound to break up the delc-
cation. lie claimed to have four OF the mem
bers foul and was going to put the screws 10
them now at the final onset i he four mem
bers are presumably Garvey, Knox, young
and Matthieson, who are all
Union Pacific employees. The pressure
brought upon these men since the session
commenced to betray their trust would seem
almost incredible. These men have been
bounded by the company's strikers and
dragged into the oil rooms by their cappe RS
every time they came to the headquarters OF
the lobby
During the closing hours of the senatorial
contest one of these members said to me:
81 wish to God had never come here.
would not advise any man employed by the
railroad company to take such position. 1T
is an awful thing to be compelled to choose
between bread and butter for my family and
my duty To the state"
This man, who stood out bravely during
the senatorial fight, has since weakened and
become demOralized By his surroundings.
Another man, Mr.. Mattheson, who has
withs;ood all the bulldozing and ol-room
tatfy without ilinching, was given to under
stand through one of the cappers that his
place was not sure If he kept up his stubborn
opposition to the dictates of the lobby.
The only man who has from the outset
made himself a subservcnt tool of the cor
rupt gang that infests the capitol is Pat Gar
proof that you cannot reform natural born
rogue. Last spring, after Garyey was noni-
mated by the democrats for the city council, a
letter was received at the BEE Office from
some unknown person in which the question
was propounded what sort of timber was
being put up by the democrats for
cOuncilmen when one of their candi-
dates was on record as having been
years ago convicted of till tapping
in court. This inquiry was
inserted contrary to newspaper usage, which
eXacts with each communication the name of
the writer This departure was, however.
taken because no name was given and no.
body expected the party referred to would be
foolish enough to put the shoe on. TO my
own surprise Carney, VINO was then unknown
to me, personally appeared at the editorial
rooms next morning to demonstrate against
any further reference. When asked what he
meant he replied that the article in the paper
about the till Taper referred to himself.
exclaimed: "YOu are the biggest fool l
ever saw to come here and confess such
thing when no name had been mentioned
and did not know myself whom the writer
alluded to-"
Garvey then made piteOus plea to have
the matter dropped. He said he was mere
I..l v,;, ,ha,, ,;nta ny tInyt
uehad since reformed and become an up
right man. | assured him that while he
placed me in an awkward position by beg
ging for silence, l would not press the
charge. although determined to beat him by
the republican candidate. Garvey was
beaten, sure enOu III, and his confession almost
dropped out of my mind.
When learned that he was nominated by
the democrats for the legislature and soon
after placed on the labor ticket by the
knights while feeling almost confident that
he would not be elected, hesitated to make
an exposure which might reflect on the
Knights of Labor. Garvey was, however,
among the elect, but being pledged, as all the
labor candidates were in our county, to sup
port anti-monOpoly principles and candi-
dates, Garvey was trusted with the rest. His
conduct during the senatorial contest was,
to use q very mild phrase, q
betrayal of confidence under very suspicious
circumstances. His conduct ever since has
been that of reckless and plant tool, who
had q part to play, and was playing for all
there was in 1t. Although bound by his
pledge to act in harmony with a majority of
the delegation, Garvey never kept faith for
moment. During one of his oil-room orgies
] overheard him saying that he did not mean
to be bound by the pledge and was
down here only to do what the railroad COM
pany wanted | asked him the next day
what he meant by such breach of his word,
and he answered that he did not remember
what he had said while under the influence
of liquor.
Since that time he has done nothing but
underhanded work against his colleagues and
the charter When Fuller was making his
abusive speech during the debate this morn
ing, Garvey clapped his hands. On the vote
to recommit the charter to the Douglas dele
cation he was the only man in that delega-
ton to vote with Russell, Slater and com
pany. No sooner had 1t been re-
ferrcd than he said publicly that
he intended to make minority report.
lie attended the conference, took part in its
debates, but before they were through
""NSo WV W iSpOlt w NVhuCiNooAe anu
Russell. Tonight he has been running up
and down between the bar room and oil
rooms, hobnobbing with the plotters and
schemers who are trying to defeat the charter.
l have just learned that the minority re-
port gotten up by Vsndervoort and Russell is
fixed fact, and poor old Mr., Knox, who is
an honest but easily duped man, has been in.
ducsi TO join Garvey in signing this precious
document after he had been dosed with lia
uor, II is not yet decided whether the
delegation will report tomorrow or
next day. but the discord and division sought
to be created BY the tricksters end shysters OF
the lobby may after all fall Hat when the re-
spectacle. sober and decent members realize
what means have been resorsea to to bring it
about. L. RosEwATER.
senate Proceedings.
LINCOLN, Neb., March 2.-Specla Tele-
gram to the Bee. The senate heard q
few reports of committees and limited
number of bills on first reading, after which
they settled down to passing bills and ground
eisht out before stopping. brief synopsis of
which Is as follows-Some are OF especial in
terest to Douglas county: A bill to dedicate
Two acres of land for the use of school dis